Concordia University to lose $2 million in funding - Kevin Dougherty, Montreal GAZETTE

Education Minister Line Beauchamp is cutting $2 million from Concordia University’s budget as a penalty for the $3.1 million in severance packages it paid to former president Judith Woodsworth and five senior administrators. “I have expressed on several occasions my concerns about the series of departures from Concordia University and the resulting impact on its budget,” Beauchamp wrote in a letter to Peter Kruyt, chairman of Concordia’s 42-member board of governors. “Concordia University has shown a lack of control and should face the consequences,” she continued in a news release about the letter.